This photo provided by the Goochland County Sheriff's Office shows a New Zealand passport photo, of Troy George Skinner. (New Zealand Passport Office/ Goochland County Sheriff's Office via AP)

GOOCHLAND, Va. — A New Zealand man who travelled to the U.S. home of a 14-year-old girl he had communicated with online was shot by the girl’s mother, a sheriff said Monday.

Troy George Skinner, 25, was shot Friday after he allegedly smashed a glass door and tried to enter the home in Goochland, Virginia, said sheriff James Agnew.

The Goochland County sheriff said Skinner bought a knife and duct tape after arriving in the U.S. The sheriff also said the girl’s mother saw a man trying to enter her home, warned him several times she had a gun, then fired after he broke the glass on the second door he tried to open.

Skinner was struck in the neck and remains hospitalized, according to authorities.

“All I can say is the manner in which he attempted to enter that home in the face of a firearm pointed at him and the implements we recovered from him — the only inference is that he had very bad intent,” Agnew said.

Agnew said Skinner will be charged with breaking and entering with a deadly weapon with the intent to commit a serious crime.

It wasn’t immediately known if Skinner has an attorney. His hometown in New Zealand was not given by authorities.

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